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    Macintosh Classic Restoration

    Thanks! I used 40% hair dye developer & saran wrap... I know it's kinda frowned upon, and has the potential to streak, but mine came out looking great. I babysat it for ~1.5 hours out in the sun, making sure to rotate/massage every 10-15 mins. I think the Texas heat had something to do with...
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    Macintosh Classic Restoration

    My next little project is getting internet working on this thing... I've got serial communication working with a raspberry pi, but I still need to configure the settings.
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    Macintosh Classic Restoration

    Just wanted to show off my finished Classic restoration. When I first bought this machine, the case, keyboard, and mouse were really dirty and scuffed. It turned on, but if you shut it down, it wouldn't boot for a couple hours. I cleaned it up, recapped the logic board, replaced the 3.6v...
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    Classic side buttons

    Thanks! Do you happen to know why pressing the Interrupt button caused my files to not show up in the finder? Like I said, they're there... but finder isn't displaying them. It's weird.
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    Classic side buttons

    I've found out that this invokes the system's debugger, MicroBug. I also found a document on how to use it. Still no mention of why my HDD isn't being read, maybe the volume was unmounted?
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    Classic side buttons

    Howdy, howdy! What do the two buttons on the left hand side of the mac classic do? I pressed one of them while the computer was on, the desktop reloaded, and now the OS isn't reading any files from the HDD (at least displaying them). The files are still there.. If I boot from ROM into System...
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    Mac Classic caps... mixed results?

    Howdy! I am going to be replacing the capacitors on my Mac Classic, however, I've ran into a few inconsistencies with a couple of online guides. MacCaps recommends: 7x 47µf 16V 1x 1µf 16V MyOldMac says to use: 7x 47µf 16V 1x 1µf 50V Does anyone have their take on this? I've...
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